Inaugural Chair
PhD, Rice University
Inaugural Chair, Department of African & African American Studies
Phone: 225-578-7023
Email: scfinley@lsu.edu
Office: 236 Coates Hall
Research Interests: African American Religious Traditions, African American Religious Thought , African American Religion and Esotericism, Religion and Psychoanalysis, Religion and Embodiment, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Religion in America
PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin
Awards & Honors
Oxford University Round Table Selectee
Outstanding Sociology Teaching Award
E-mail: socdua@lsu.edu
Area of Interest: Southern Culture; Criminology; Aging; Social Stratification; Ethnic Studies
Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Asst. Professor, African and African American Studies
Office: 135 Howe-Russell Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Office No. 225-578-5246
Core Faculty
AAAS Values
- Equity. AAAS practices and advocates fair distribution of resources. opportunities. labor, and reward and advocates for the for the distribution of such in accordance with degree of past harm and present needs.
- Excellence: AAAS strives for the highest distinction and outstanding achievement in scholarship, instruction, professional service, administration, and leadership
- Justice: AAAS works for the transformation of structures, practices, policies, and ideas that inhibit and curtail human flourishing by engaging in self- conscious and ethical treatment of individuals and communities.
- Respect. AAAS shows regard for the humanity of others and honors human difference and sameness.
- Scholarship: AAAS seeks the creation and dissemination of knowledge a, productivity, and innovation.d socially transformative ideas at highest level of intellectual attainment.
PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
LSU Faculty Athletics Representative Louisiana State University
Phone: 225-578-1856
Email: lorim@lsu.edu
Office: 132B Hodges Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Wealth Inequality, Asset Poverty, Sociology of Sport
PhD, Indiana University
Professor of Political Science,
African and African American Studies and the Department of Psychology
Phone: 225-578-7023
Email: jamsulli@lsu.edu
Office: 202 Stubbs Hall
Research Interests: African-American Politics, Voting Behavior, Political Psychology